Google VS Microsoft — ROUND 1. FIGHT!

Ok, this was far sooner than I expected, but this news is certainly worth it.

Microsoft and Google are showing us exactly how childish they are by presenting a beautiful and absolutely laughable act of “He hit me first, mommy”

In this post http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/01/bing-google-fight/  MG Siegler was kind enough to compile the best hits so far! Got to keep a close eye on this enterprises’ Tweets!

Here, I will copy and paste the Tweets MG Siegler selected, they are absolutely HILARIOUS.

 

AGAIN, the following is TAKEN from MG Siegler’s post, link found above.

@fxshaw
Frank X. Shaw 

1.Don’t be fooled. Google wants to change subject because they’re under investigation in the US and Europe for manipulating search results.

about 6 hours ago via Seesmic DesktopRetweetReply

@fxshaw
Frank X. Shaw 

2. Google collects customer data from Chrome and Android. Pot calling kettle black? http://bit.ly/eLQV70

about 6 hours ago via Seesmic DesktopRetweetReply

@fxshaw
Frank X. Shaw 

3. Harry Shum very clear http://bit.ly/hYvCIM on 1k plus signals used in ranking algorithm…includes clickstream data.

about 6 hours ago via Seesmic DesktopRetweetReply

Google’s Matt Cutts fired back on Twitter:

@mattcutts
Matt Cutts 

So far Bing’s response seems to be “We don’t copy Google’s results. Of course we do.” http://goo.gl/8VoDJ vs. http://goo.gl/yW4Ia

about 3 hours ago via webRetweetReply

Google then decided to escalate things further by using their official blog to very directly call Microsoft out with a post titled: Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it. I mean, just think about that for a second.

Then, about an hour ago, there was this great exchange on Twitter in response to Dave Winer posting a link to the original story:

@davewiner
Dave Winer 

Oooops looks like Google caught Microsoft cheating in search. http://r2.ly/853k

about 2 hours ago via webRetweetReply

@fxshaw
Frank X. Shaw 

@davewiner no they didn’t.

about 2 hours ago via Seesmic DesktopRetweetReply

@davewiner
Dave Winer 

@fxshaw The evidence is pretty convincing

about 2 hours ago via webRetweetReply

@fxshaw
Frank X. Shaw 

@davewiner Google had employees log onto ms customer feedback system and send results to Microsoft.

about 2 hours ago via Seesmic DesktopRetweetReply

Bang!

@mattcutts
Matt Cutts 

@fxshaw @davewiner normal people call that “IE8″.

about 2 hours ago via webRetweetReply

Zing!

@fxshaw
Frank X. Shaw 

@mattcutts hey if this whole engineering thing doesn’t work out for you, try PR — you’ve got the chops for it. ;)

about 2 hours ago via Seesmic DesktopRetweetReply

Pow!

@akovacs
Andrew Kovacs 

Re Microsoft’s Bing copying Google search results- What do we want? “We’d like for this practice to stop.” http://goo.gl/f8XiK

about 2 hours ago via webRetweetReply

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~ by Ryoku Weil on February 1, 2011. 8:25 pm.